Void
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| Founders | Saber and Voidlord (Chocolate) | ||||||
| Leader | Zephyr (Iceydwagon) | ||||||
The Void is a faction on Pxls.space that mainly builds art themed around the color black. It was founded on Canvas 1 by Saber and Voidlord (Chocolate), and is still active to the present day. The faction is now owned and operated by Zephyr.
To join the Void, you originally had to provide proof of your Pxls account and a Reddit account, a requirement that has since been removed. It started as a griefing group, but after a coup that took place across canvas 2-3, it now has a greater focus on creating artwork.
History
2017
Canvas 1
Void formed late into Canvas 1, and within the last day of the canvas, they had covered the entire bottom right corner with a void.
Canvas 2
To capitalize on the success of the void, a collab with Cosmic Corner was made. The top right corner of Canvas 2 was in full control of Cosmic Corner, the Void, and osu! until it was stamped out by the Axis. As a result, the Void took a small claim in the top left.
Canvas 3
After the previously mentioned Void coup, and because this canvas was already black, Void shifted focus to making artwork. A Void logo with the names of each staff member and art of Zephyr and Voido were constructed. The Void was involved in three wars during this canvas:
- Void-Fred Invasion: A user named Fred who Void bulldozed to make art but created a gravestone afterwards with his name as a peace treaty.
- The Great Spurdo War: Void played a key part in the war against the large Finnish faction covering the canvas with Spurdos. The Void created the tree in the centre of the canvas as a way to destroy the faction. It was originally planned to have void themed roots, but then a second war broke out.
- Void Spurdo: Steffff and a few members of the German Reich took this opportunity to take control of the damage and unorganized Finnish forces. They created a new faction called the Brotherhood of Spurdos and fought back to claim territory across the canvas. One part of this was the roots of the Void's tree where a canvas long battle occurred between Stefff and Zephyr regarding a duck with the head of a Spurdo, commonly referred to as Spurduck. Afterwards, the two made up their differences and the Spurduck became a staple of Void art.
Canvas 4
With strong alliances beginning in Canvas 4, Void teamed up with Foxes and the Core to have artwork next to each other. The Void's iconic logo design first appeared on this canvas. While there was a lot of propaganda art between both the German Reich and the Void, the canvas was relatively quiet. This canvas, however, marked a decline in the Void; afterwards, artworks became sporadic across each canvas.
Canvas 6
The Void was able to create a massive claim while allying with LGBTLattice, Cells, Green Lattice, ponies, and now a faction of Spurdos that was formed from a previous Void staff member, Yellsatstuff. The Void was only involved in a single war: The Cell-Spurdo War. The Spurdos had a tendency to attack the other more serious factions for fun, and because of this, Cells invaded Spurdo space to remove them. In an attempt to support both its allies, The Void invaded Spurdos, but converting them into Void Spurdos to prevent their erasure. This was the first canvas where the icon of The Void's Discord bot Voidbot was first created on the canvas.
Canvas 7
With knowledge on what the new canvas would look like, the Void held back on creating any art until the full canvas was visible. Once it was, the Void claimed the entire centre square of the canvas with help of Zephyr's personal faction, Dragonaut.
2018
Canvas 8
A small Void core was made in the corner of the canvas. The Void mainly focused on the Spurdo's "Spurdo Army" artwork.
Canvas 9
A very small Void core was made, consisting of 5 Void cells and a logo.
Canvas 13
The only artwork that The Void made this canvas was a single Voidduck; a Void themed version of the Spurduck that was originally made by Stefffff.
2019
Canvas 28
After a long break, the Void came back to once again to collaborate with the Spurdo faction, helping to create their "Make Pxls Great Again" artwork.
Canvas 29
With the TikTok Invasion occurring during this canvas, Void created the Anti-Void and Griefing Alliance to manipulate people into converting Void griefing by new players into territory for Void. This was done by helping create artwork and placing the famous Void spiral on top of the voids. During this canvas, Saber and the Void refugees returned to destroy Void artwork but were unsuccessful. The quote "ok voider", a spin on the "ok boomer" quote, was first coined here.
Canvas 30
Void became part of the New Pixel Allies in an attempt to counter the rising threat of Cozy Vault.
Canvas 31
A small Void core with a Voidling and Spurdo art was created.
2020
Canvas 32
Void collaborated with Cirno Embassy, a group that originated from a member of the Void, to make artwork from the game Changed and the full Void logo. A short war between Green Lattice occurred, but the rest of the canvas was uneventful.
Canvas 33
A large demon along with satanic imagery was created on this canvas. It was the first time Void began associating itself with Satanism.
Canvas 34
A small dispute between Void and Legion occurred.
Canvas 35
Void took over one of the water droplets and once again created a demon with satanic imagery. After this canvas, The Void went into hibernation, wanting to instead help the new Pride Faction.
Canvas 36
A core with art of Zephyr, Hollow Knight, and a dragon was created.
2021
Canvas 50
After another break, the Void came back with a small core, Protogen artwork, and helped Krey_the_prey construct pixel art.
2022
Canvas 55
With r/place 2 going on, Void did not create a core, instead choosing to spread black pixels everywhere on the canvas to farm pixels. After the end of r/place 2, they helped Polonian Pixels construct their logo and artwork before the reset.
Canvas 56
Invigorated by the events of r/place 2, Void had once again made a full return and constructed a large Voiding and their logo.
Canvas 57
The Void was invited to join the Fish Collab, which they accepted. They created a small void themed fish, as well as a void creature drinking void juice towards the top of the canvas.
Canvas 58 - 89
The Void was informally retired during this period due to the time commitment required to build and defend art the entire canvas. Its members instead chose to become a mercenary group that helped others build their art.
2025
Canvas 90
After being invited to a collab with The Ember Empire (Ember), the Ember Void was created. The Void returned from retirement with its biggest footprint so far: 200,801 pixels in total.
The canvas began with a war against Schizophrenia over a minor grief incident from the previous canvas. Schizo demanded the removal of all Void elements from their collaboration, and this was initially agreed upon to prevent further damage to the art and to allow a counteroffensive without the Ember Empire becoming a target.
The war lasted five days, with nearly 6,000 pixels griefed on Schizo's template. In the end, both sides agreed to drop their demands, and Ember's template was reverted to the Ember Void.
Canvas 91
The Void collaborated with The Purple Empire to create The Purple Void. This was the first time the Void made artwork that wasn't black. The canvas started with Deltarune and Hollow Knight trans-pride art.
Canvas 92
The Void collaborated with Corner Gang this canvas, adding ~ to their template with a changeling and therian art to fill out the rest of the space.
Shortly after the canvas started, they came under attack from members of Neuro-sama's Swarm, starting a multi-canvas war between the two groups. The war stemmed from the abnormal shape of the canvas resulting in Swarm's art not fitting within the canvas's shape. Swarm blamed Zephyr for picking a canvas solely to prevent them from making art, despite the fact that canvas was decided by a poll between staff.
Canvas 93
The Void did not make art this canvas, focusing solely on retaliating against Swarm and PFam for their griefs on the previous canvas.
Canvas 93a
The Void collaborated with r4ndom to create YO2B, a parody of the YOIB faction. An ant from Hollow Knight: Silksong and a wingless portrait of Zephyr was placed. Both of these continued to be attacked by the leader of PFam.
Canvas 94
With the war still raging, Void joined and later led the Neuro Expulsion Corps, a coalition of factions who had grievances with Swarm.
TBD
Other Details
- Abyss, Void clone (C15)
- Pxls staff could not stop Russian Bots, so they asked Void to grief them (C2)
- Void summer celebration
- Public Void staff meetings; 4 5
- Kaide incident
Notable Figures
- Saber; Founder
- Voidlord (Chocolate); Founder
- Zephyr; Current Owner
- Aceynuu; Previous Owner
- Kaide; Previous Owner
- Emanfman; Void and osu! Moderator
- [ ] (Blanc); Previous Owner
Notable Incidents
osu! Influence (C2)
The Void has strong ties with osu!; multiple of Void's staff members were also staff members of osu!, including but not limited to: emanfman, sjatar, LittleEndu, and Pozy. As a result, in the early days The Void became the biggest ally to osu! and they both helped each other immensely in their battles.
Voidlord Incident (C2 - C3)
After abusing his moderator perms to remove people he did not like from the Void, the group collectively decided to remove him. This started a series of events that eventually lead to his downfall. After getting banned from the Discord, he repeated made thinly veiled alt accounts to get back in, but because of the Void's strict verification system he was denied every time.
After a few months, Voidlord became a moderator for Pxls, and so was allowed to return to the Void for strictly diplomatic purposes. It was soon discovered he had created a script that copied every message sent in the Void's Discord into a separate Discord server where other users who had been banned from the Void could see. This led to him getting removed from Pxls staff, and shortly after disappeared from Pxls altogether.
Void - Axis Conflict (C2)
A short war between the Void, its allies, and The New Pixel Axis. The Axis built over a quarter of the canvas, and as such people were unhappy. To take advantage of this sentiment, the Void advertised itself as the go-to anti-Axis Discord, gaining new members and popular support with osu!, Cosmic Corner, Blue Corner and Green Lattice. The conflict culminated in a large battle over the Bismarck art on the German flag. During this time, Zephyr was designated head of spy operation and was able to get accounts into every Discord server to spy on enemies and allies. This even included writing scripts to pull hidden API data from Discord to see hidden channels and topics in the server. Notable factions that got access during this time include Pxls staff, German Reich, osu! staff, Cozy Vault, RussianBots, Polish Flag, Cosmic Corner, UK, and Finish flag. In an attempt to counter and distract the Axis powers, the Void created a separate Discord using alts called the Anti-Axis Alliance. The server was as public as possible with Reddit posts and canvas advertising. Axis members were purposely given moderator roles to make it seem like the Axis has the upper hand. In reality, the Void staff were watching these Axis members in the German Reich Discord and purposely chose the most gullible ones. The Anti-Axis then went on to launch several fake attacks while the Void launched real attacks elsewhere on the canvas. The whole conflict ended when the Axis built a large stamp over the Void and its allies, removing any trace of Void in that area.
Collaboration with void groups on other r/place clones (C2)
There existed several Void factions across the various r/place clones, and so they entered in talks with each other. A Discord was made where leaders of the void factions on Pxls, place2, colour this, and more all collaborated. Other than a lot of memes, nothing important became of this and as the interest in place clones faded, so too did this alliance.
Void Coup (C2 - C3)
With the Chocolate incident, tensions were rising in the Void. There was a clear disconnect between two sides of the faction. One wanted anarchy, with little rules or moderation, while the other wanted a more relaxed and safe faction. These differences culminated after the second and third Void elections where Kaide and then Zephyr were given the mantle of leader. Saber, the original founder was banned from the server, so they created a new Discord to plot a way to take revenge. Anyone who was found conspiring with him was given the boot as well. One of the surviving videos from the time shows the new Void staff reading and laughing at Saber's DM conversations. With the fourth Void election, [ ] became leader and the situation calmed down. The Void refugees would make a return during the TikTok Invasion of Canvas 29.
Anti-Void and Griefing Alliance (C29)
The TikTok Invasion brought thousands of new users, and in an attempt to hijack the new voids that were appearing, Zephyr created an anti-void group with the same logo as the Void. The group attacked several large voids and placed this logo on top, essentially claiming all the territory of that new void for the Pxls Void without people realizing.
Neurosama Expulsion Corps (C94)
to be written at a later date